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On 02/09/2012 02:10 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
> I am thinking the plural could play this role. There may be a limitation to its
> application, as I feel to know some English nouns do not have a plural, or are
> spelled the same for both their singular and plural.

The plural is used a lot in the standard library (Ada.Strings, Ada.Containers).

The present participle is sometimes useful (Widget_Handling, Town_Marshalling).

I've also seen instances where _Management was meaningful and solved this kind 
of conflict.

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